The case of Milica Stojanović, who hit a student police officer with her car during the January protests, experienced a sudden turn in just a few months - from being accused of attempted murder to being released from custody and transferred to the basic court. The decisions of the prosecution and the court raised suspicions of political pressure and selective justice
Milica Stojanović, who during the January protests in Belgrade hit and seriously injured a female student with a car, was released from prison custody, the High Court in Belgrade confirmed for KRIK. Although she was initially charged with attempted murder, the indictment against her was changed and now Stojanović is accused of a lesser crime - "serious crime against general security".
Several events that took place in the last week indicate that things are moving in favor of Milica Stojanović, who at the beginning of this year hit a car and seriously injured a student at a protest.
First, the High Prosecutor's Office, led by Nenad Stefanović, reduced her criminal charge last week - instead of attempted murder, it was decided to try her for a serious crime against general security. With this, Stojanović is no longer in danger of being sentenced to 10 or more years, but can be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison.
Then, today, the High Court in Belgrade announced that she was released from custody, where she had been since January. The High Court also told KRIK that this case, because the crime was mitigated, will be transferred to the Third Basic Court.
From the very beginning, this case has been surrounded by controversy.
After running over a student who was a security guard at a protest in New Belgrade on January 24, 26-year-old Stojanović tried to run away with her "citoren", as can be seen in the published videos. Protesting students and citizens stopped her, however, until the police arrived and arrested her.
In March, prosecutor Jelena Belopavlović filed an indictment against her for the most serious crime – attempted murder, for which, if convicted, Stojanović could receive 10 or more years in prison.
This caused a strong reaction from tabloids controlled by the authorities who attacked prosecutor Belopavlović, claiming, like Informer, that she is part of the "Serbian judiciary that has broken away from the state, law, law and justice". The same tabloid accused the prosecutor, Belopavlović, that because of her, Stojanović allegedly wanted to take his own life while in custody.
Everything after that went in favor of Stojanović.
Stojanović's lawyers requested that this prosecutor be excluded from the case because she attended one of the protests. By the way, one of her lawyers is Goran Petronijević, who defends influential people like Milan Radoićić in the Banjsko case, as well as one of the accused policemen in the Jovanjic case.
Chief prosecutor Nenad Stefanović accepted the lawyer's request and took the case away from Belopavlović.
The High Court in Belgrade did not confirm Belopavlović's indictment, but sent it back to the prosecution for amendment. The indictment was amended so that now Stojanović is accused of a lesser crime - a serious crime against general security. The most severe sentence she can receive is five years in prison.
The case will therefore be transferred to the Third Basic Court in Belgrade, which judges cases with lighter threatened sentences.
This is just one of the events in which participants of protests and blockades that have been organized for months have been injured.
Students are organizing a fifteen-minute silence in which they pay their respects to the 16 who died after the fall of the canopy on the train station building in Novi Sad in November last year. With protests, they demand the responsibility of those who were responsible for the reconstruction of the canopy.
Also, the students demand that the attackers of their colleagues who were physically attacked during the blockades, threatened with knives and beaten with bats be discovered and prosecuted. The police and the prosecutor's office have not yet shed light on all the attacks.
Source: KRIK
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